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Show -KNEW HIS OWN TERRAPIN. Virginian Identified It by Its Peculiar Expression. "Tldowater Virginia," said Mr. B. U White of Lanrastor. Va., at tha Short-ham rorently, "Is tho most delightful de-lightful and wonderful country In tha world. Everything that heart ran wish or the appetite can fancy Is produced from the fertile fields and the great rivers that traverse them on their way to tha bay. Nothing ever surpassed Her oysters, ber Dab, ber ducks, ber diamond-bark terrapins. "The terrapin farming," he continued, contin-ued, "! a remarkable business and very lucrative. Hut It roqulrca a large outlay of capital and a great deal ot labor. Each owner of a 'larm' as tin Utile watur front fenced In for th purpnso Is called zealously guards his domain and reaenta tho slightest encroachment en-croachment by a neighbor or slrunger. And a curious thing about It Is that these men engaged In the buslcesa late learned to know their own terrapins terra-pins by the expression of their fares. Not long ajo a negro boy was arrested In one of tho lower counties In the It'it'luihuniiook river for stealing a 'diamond back," and ho wns convicted upon the testimony of the owner, who w"to point blank that the suld top-rnplii top-rnplii was his, and waa stolen from pb 'farm,' because bo recognized the loriniilil terrapin by Its individual riprcsHiun of countenance, which be bad studied for years. stuted also that all his terra-p'" terra-p'" had tho samo smllo and gentle k"k out f the quiet cy-s; tha' he would know them at once anywhere oniiuig all the terrapins of the world. I '"II you, air. Tidewater Virginia I wcoder." Washington l'oat |